Literature Unit and New Resource

Have you become addicted to Pinterest yet?  I've been enjoying looking at crafts, crochet patterns, and recipes, but, guess what I found today?  An "Education" section!  Oh my do I love finding new, fun, ideas for learning with Faith!  So here I am to share just a couple that I found in the few minutes I had to spend looking.  I foresee hours of surfing fun in my future!

I love literature.  I love reading it, teaching it, and doing fun activities with it.  Our next books are going to be "The Snowy Day" by Jack Ezra Keats and "The Jacket I Wear in the Snow" by Shirley Neitzel.  

Follow this link for a fun activity:  "The Snowy Day"

You can also find a "Wintery Fun" math and literacy themed unit.  

Or, if you want to be overwhelmed...click here!

Stay tuned for pictures of our Wintery Fun activities.  Amazon, here I come!

The Snowy Day

Winter is here....make the best of it! :)

Getting Back At It With Dino's and Giving Tree

It's January.  Blah... or, maybe not...  

Every morning Faith wakes up and asks "What are we going to do today?".  Sometimes I have great things planned and sometimes, I'm not sure.  The other "not sure" day, Faith had a great plan!  She has decided that she wants to make a clay project complete with dinosaurs, trees, mountains and volcanoes.  This great idea gave me an even greater idea.  She is going to get a chance to make her fabulous clay project, but we are going to learn about dinosaurs and their habitats (among other things) first.  Stay tuned for dino updates!

Not quite as fun but a good little lesson to keep us busy until I can get everything set up for the dinosaurs...The Giving Tree.  For this idea I went back to www.lessonpathways.com.  This is such a great resource and really helps me put something together quick.   

We are going to read the book:

"The Giving Tree"  by Sid Silverstein.  

Then, thanks to the help of Lesson Pathways, we have some fun ways to cover the following objectives:

List of Objectives:

• Read "The Giving Tree."
• Learn what trees give us.
• Learn about advanced contractions and practice using them.
• Review all sight words for the year.

Home schooling a first grader really is not difficult.  In fact, there are so many resources out there that sometimes the hardest part is narrowing down "What are we going to do today".  :)